Excerpt from Church and Sunday School Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs, Appropriate for Church Services, Sunday Schools, and General Devotional Exercises Tiie service of song claims a very important place in all our devotional exercises. The Lord has in all ages encouraged his people to rejoice and sing praises to His holy name. In singing the soul gives expression of its devotion to God, and makes known its deep struggles and great needs. The service of song also leads to spiritual development and unity among the believers. Among the pleasures and joys of heaven will be the glorious song service Of the redeemed: And they sang a new song - saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. In order to be prepared to join in the songs of the redeemed, our hearts and souls need to be set in tune by the hand that sets in tune every vocal and spiritual chord in all the universe. This is effected by following the divine instruction to teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts unto the Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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